Word: earthness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appointment in the midst of a dinner party in Austin, when Johnson phoned him. "Homer," said the President am going to nominate you for the Supreme Court." Replied the overwhelmed Thornberry: "I hope I can deserve this confidence." Homer's wife Eloise was more down to earth. Said she of the President: "That dear...
Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo...
...already demanding that the U.S. start looking beyond the moon to more distant and challenging targets. At the Fourth International Symposium on Bioastronautics and the Exploration of Space in San Antonio last week, scientists repeatedly urged NASA to get on with the job of planning trips to the earth's planetary neighbors. Since unmanned probes have all but proved that the moon is devoid of life, Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Harold C. Urey, for one, believes that it may be a "terribly dull object." Urey and many of his colleagues are now leaning more and more to the once unfashionable...
...nominated as possible havens for such life. Nobel Chemistry Laureate Willard F. Libby speculated that oxygen detected on Venus by a Soviet space probe last October may well be the product of plant photosynthesis. Jupiter, said NASA Chemist Cyril Ponnamperuma, has an atmosphere similar to that which enveloped the earth during its first 100 million years; the swirling Jovian gases, he added, may already have combined into basic life-building molecules. But the strongest argument was made on behalf of Mars. Despite its freezing temperatures and apparent lack of oxygen, explained NASA Microbiologist Harold P. Klein, life could have been...
Were he a better film-maker, someone with a decent sense of camera and editing, we could call him an auteur and grant him his own strange bag, but as it stands now, all we can do is wonder where on earth the man's mind...